Thats the trick.

You cant reform them.

They are corrupt to the core.

All reformation does is change how they cover up their corruption and take out their anger on the public at large.

The only way to get rid of police corruption, is to raise a new generation of intelligent, educated peace officers who are trained to de-escalate, trained on how to deal with difficult people who may be in crisis, who know the laws they are supposed to enforce, who do not want a thin blue line to hide behind, who do not need qualified immunity to protect them from their ineptitude, Who will actively arrested fellow officers and out corruption and criminal behavior should the need arise, and who wont stand by the side and do nothing while it happens infront of them.

And once they are ready, you fire every. single. person. associated with the police. You root out the corruption by purging it, and sterilizing the basket, so it has no roots from with to ruin the new crop.

then you put civilian oversite over them to investigate and monitor to make sure the new batch are staying true to their purpose and training.

Make any argument you want. Whenever you want. For me, I don't think the defund argument will ever work nationally. I think all the defund argument does is help Republicans fund raise.

Sometimes all you have is voting and hoping

You really should read the article,this headline is 100% on point. Federal funding supported the creation of the team that carried out this torture while the people in charge were celebrated as reform leaders.

This sort of thing happens a lot with federal funding into state/county/municipal police departments because we haven't had an administration/Congress that cared at all about police brutality since I don't know when and it's just very easy for them to sign the checks and look the other way, like when the Biden administration approved Memphis's plan to spend COVID money on the police department that went on to murder Tyre Nichols.

What frustrates me the most is it seems like both parties talk about police reform and then take turns blocking the other party's bills.

It's incredibly sad but for a lot of, if not all, black folk in South, reconstruction was the last time they got a fair shot at effecting actual change in their state governments.

You'd have to add a provision that any money received in fines or tickets or other such stuffs gets sent to the fed to be shredded so they don't try to float their boat by ticketing people over every little thing.

But honestly I could see it working.

The main problem with this is that the hits these days are in the millions of dollars and that adds up fast. So the inevitable result even with just good faith mistakes would be that people would stop being cops. People who could be good cops wouldn't join to replace them because of the risk, and the entire thing would likely just disintegrate.

On the one hand fine! On the other hand, what takes its place?

This is not intended to be a pro-cop argument, just an explanation of the problem. We need a social institution that can fill that gap in a better way.

Yeah what a stupid headline

In 2017, however, BRAVE’s funding from the DOJ’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention was not extended because of concerns about East Baton Rouge Parish’s administration of the grant

“Police program abuses federal funding and goes rogue once funding is pulled, committing civil rights violations”